1969

Lost in the Funhouse

By John Barth

Original Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Current Publisher: Anchor

Fiction Finalists That Year:

• John Barth for Lost in the Funhouse
• Frederick Exley for A Fan's Notes
• Joyce Carol Oates for Expensive People
• Thomas Rogers for The Pursuit of Happiness

Fiction Winner That Year: Jerzy Kosinki for Steps

Fiction Judges That Year: Irving Howe, Jerre Mangione, Wright Morris

The Year in Literature:

• House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
• Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for literature.

More Information: Barth won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1973 for Chimera.

Links: www.nbafictionblog.org/nba-winning-books-blog/1973.html